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World's First Single-Atom-Thick Fabric

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the barely-there dept.

neutron_p writes "Researchers at The University of Manchester have made the world's first single-atom-thick fabric, which reveals the existence of a new class of materials and may lead to computers made from a single molecule. They call it graphene, because it's 'webbed' by extraction of individual planes of carbon atoms from graphite crystal. The nanofabric belongs to the family of fullerene molecules, which were discovered during the last two decades, but is the first two-dimensional fullerene."

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  1. This is a morning fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP for me bro. Is this too early? Owned!

  2. There IS a privacy problem with Google Search by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There really is a privacy problem with Google Search. If I use a public computer and do something personal, I will go and delete the browsers cache, cookies, history, etc. and restart it. All good right? Wrong. Google keeps its own seperate cache and it is not deleted, and THERE IS NO WAY TO DELETE IT. This IS a problem. Even if there was a way to delete it, how would I know to do it? I may not even know it is running.

  3. Re:Go Cardinals! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Baseball is for girly men. Real men watch NFL.

  4. To Michael Simms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since John Fonda Kerry Heinz is unelectable, I was wondering what your suicide plans are. Gun to the head, carbon monoxide, etc...? Or maybe you'll move to a shithole like France.

    Michael Simms, dead at 8, truly a proto-marxist icon that won't be missed.

  5. Can't wait for the election by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It'll be hilarious watching the eurotrash and other 3rd world leftist fucktards crying.

  6. Re:Can it cut things? by kpansky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NFL!
    Fuck yeah!
    Bed Bath and Beyond!
    Fuck yeah!
    Fullerene slips!
    Fuck yeah!

    --

    --Kevin
  7. what it looks like under a electron microscope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    here is a page, not linked in the article, over here

  8. Re:Terrorists? by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    yes, but what if the terrorists realised that if you bite somebody, it really, really hurts. it would be mayhem:

    terrorists lobby to get capital punishment legal in all major countries (for one murder)
    terrorists bites innocent old lady
    lady screams
    lady beats terrorist to death with handbag
    lady gets electric chair

    what? it could happen.

  9. Re:Can it cut things? by RMH101 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nah, think about this, it's pure william gibson. an item 1 atom thick is as sharp as anything...seem to remember reading a sci-fi book about monofilament like this: a "wire" a single atom wide - would cut through anything...

  10. Re:Can it cut things? by stevey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was probably the mono-filament blades used by Simon Green's Deathstalker novels.

    From memory these were powered by energry crystals, much like the guns they used. I'm not sure why the power source was necessary though.

    Although I'm sure I've seen the idea used elsewhere too.